1. A massive earthquake
2. Contagious virus
3. Global warming
4. Asteroid hitting earth
5. Alien invasion
6. The next World War
7. Other (specify)
looks like no.2 at this point
shareDestroy us entirely or just civilization as we've known it the last 10-15 thousand of years?
For humanity entirely I would go with comet or asteroid impact.
As for civilization's collapse, next world war (whatever that may be via cyber warfare or WOMD) followed by Skynet and then super volcano. I think pockets of humanity will still survive in parts of the world, but 90% of us won't make it.
Entirely.
I agree. An asteroid is what I feel is most likely.
No matter what you think of Bob next door, humans are extremely resilient creatures. There are tribes of people that are still H/G's and live like the old ways today. Not including more "modern" people who currently live off the land and grid.
It will take an extraterritorial event to totally eradicate this species from the planet. That or eventually the natural ways of the earth which will kill everything as the sun dies in who knows how many hundred thousands or millions of years. I have no faith in humanity lasting that long.
I'm a bit of a half glass empty person, but the day we live in today is so fearsome. We have so many modern pleasures (running water, electricity, A/C, long distance travel, food, etc), but since the 40's we also have the ability to destroy ourselves and all other modern civilizations on the planet. Sure you didn't have the same pleasures we do today as opposed to 100 years ago, but we also didn't have the ability to destroy the planet either. It must have been very difficult during the cold war eras too as a child, always believing one side would destroy the world.
I believe we will do more harm to each over well before the planet's resources conclude or changing of the seasons take too much of an effect.
Not even current technology will save us. I'm honestly surprised we didn't destroy this place 500 years ago.
shareFast food.
shareHumans.
shareSocial media networks.
1. A massive earthquake = Probably not.
2. Contagious virus = good possibility
3. Global warming = no way
4. Asteroid hitting earth = not a chance in hell
5. Alien invasion = not a chance in hell
6. The next World War = IDK. wars can escalate so fast. IDK :(
7. Other (specify) = Social media networks like Twitter, Facebook.
I think you're underestimating an asteroid. When I wrote this post a year ago, one just missed us that NASA admitted they weren't aware of.
shareThe ones I'm personally scared of the most are:
1. Deadly, contagious virus. If this pandemic has taught us anything, it's that we're not ready for an outbreak. We don't listen to reason. We don't cooperate as a society. The Governments & States don't necessarily coordinate, cooperate or share with each other. If there's a deadly viral outbreak, the human race is SCREWED!
2. Asteroids. Those freaking things scare the heck outta me. Whenever I watch National Geographic & I see the number of those things in space & how frequently they come close to earth/pass us by, it's frightening. We're not really ready to actually deal with 'em.
Honestly, the issues are worse than that. For as much fear as we put out over the coronavirus, governments are doing the bare minimal to control it and citizens are content with believing that doing what the government says will keep them safe. I still find it absurd that international travel has continued all throughout the pandemic and many people actually went on foreign vacations because rates are cheaper during a pandemic.
The coronavirus is very contagious but not very lethal, as it becomes more and more lethal as well as gain vaccine resistance we're doing absolutely nothing to slow the spread of new variants and seem to be accepting that a global pandemic means doing absolutely nothing to prevent the spread of a deadly pathogen.
And we have politicians, news personalities & celebrities who've already taken the proper precautions against the virus, telling people lies & feeding them misinformation
If there's a deadly virus outbreak or even a deadlier variant of the current one, the human race is fucked! We will be the ones to cause our own downfall, not the virus.
1. I always expected a virus one more serious than this one) to really kick our asses. I honestly expect a significantly more deadly one in 30-40 years.
2. I've always felt this is one most likely one. Any one of them could hit us and we could easily not be prepared for it.